From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:02:02 GMT
In article <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>In article <1992Sep09.203305.18082@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
>> OK, so they are trying to protect this as a "trade secret". If
>> you discover a trade secret in legal ways, you are free to blab.
>Of course. But how do you PROVE that that trade secret was discovered
>in a legal way?
In fact, even if you discover a trade secret because someone who signed a
non-disclosure agreement told you, you're free to blab. So long as *you*
didn't sign such an agreement, you're under no restrictions.
-- Barry Margolin System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar